Tools of the Imagination: Drawing Tools and Technologies from the Eighteenth Century to the Present

Piedmont-Palladino, Susan

New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2007. Hardcover. Silver boards with stamped lettering on front cover and spine, white dust jacket with gray lettering and color illustrations, 124 pp, profusely illustrated in color. VG/VG- (light shelfwear to dust jacket. Pages are very clean and tight.). Item #178881
ISBN: 9781568985992

"Tools of the Imagination: Drawing Tools and Technologies from the Eighteenth Century to the Present takes the reader on a 250-year journey through the history of invention and innovation in architectural design implements end technologies. This collection is accompanied by drawings and models that record the evolution in the expression of architectural ideas."--Jacket. Contents include: Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Circles and spheres -- The line -- The lead pencil: lever of the architect's imagination -- The geometry of art -- Light and shadow -- Perspective -- Design tools: a collector's perspective and an architect's odyssey -- Copying -- From model to drawing to building -- Erasing or deleting -- Imagination and building beyond tools -- Conclusion: improvisations, instruments, and algorithms -- Bibliography and additional sources -- Contributor biographies.